{"id":83,"date":"2020-04-05T04:07:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T04:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magotpie.com\/serial\/?p=83"},"modified":"2020-04-05T04:07:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T04:07:02","slug":"killer-serial-american-gein-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magotpie.com\/serial\/killer-serial-american-gein-ed\/2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Killer Serial: American \u2013 Gein, Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Theodore Gein was extremely isolated by his domineering and religiously fanatical mother.\u00a0 She was his only friend and when she died, his mind clearly fractured.\u00a0 He began digging up fresh female corpses.\u00a0 From their skin he made a \u201cwoman suit\u201d so that he could \u201cbecome his mother\u201d.\u00a0 He also used skin to make masks, upholster furniture and various other horrible things such as a belt made up of nipples.\u00a0 He fashioned soup bowls from skulls and saved many body parts in boxes and bags stored around his rooms.\u00a0 While he may have killed only two victims, his crimes were so heinous that he became the inspiration for horror characters such as Norman Bates, Leatherface, Buffalo Bill and many others.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/magotpie.com\/serial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/KSA-Gein-Ed-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magotpie.com\/serial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/KSA-Gein-Ed-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/magotpie.com\/serial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/KSA-Gein-Ed-768x979.jpg 768w, https:\/\/magotpie.com\/serial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/KSA-Gein-Ed-803x1024.jpg 803w, https:\/\/magotpie.com\/serial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/KSA-Gein-Ed-1568x1998.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/magotpie.com\/serial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Ed-Gein-5x7-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magotpie.com\/serial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Ed-Gein-5x7-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magotpie.com\/serial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Ed-Gein-5x7-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/magotpie.com\/serial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Ed-Gein-5x7-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/magotpie.com\/serial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Ed-Gein-5x7-1568x1120.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Theodore Gein was extremely isolated by his domineering and religiously fanatical mother.\u00a0 She was his only friend and when she died, his mind clearly fractured.\u00a0 He began digging up fresh female corpses.\u00a0 From their skin he made a \u201cwoman suit\u201d so that he could \u201cbecome his mother\u201d.\u00a0 He also used skin to make masks, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magotpie.com\/serial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magotpie.com\/serial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magotpie.com\/serial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magotpie.com\/serial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magotpie.com\/serial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magotpie.com\/serial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/magotpie.com\/serial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magotpie.com\/serial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magotpie.com\/serial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magotpie.com\/serial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}